PCSAT2 one step closer to launch

With the Space Shuttle Discovery and PCSAT2 now at the launch pad, workers at Kennedy Space Center in Florida successfully completed the next crucial step in the Space Shuttle's Return to Flight - a tanking test of Discovery's redesigned External Tank.

On Thursday, 14 April 2005, the launch team successfully performed an 11-hour External Tank integrated tanking test. The test also readied Discovery's main propulsion system; allowed technicians operating the hardware to gain first-hand experience on the redesigned tank; and allowed crews to evaluate the overall operation of ground systems in
preparation for launch of Discovery's Return to Flight mission (STS-114) planned for next month.

For more information and pictures about PCSAT2 visit
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/pcsat2.html

[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]

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